An Angel Feather

This video is about Randy Berlin's new single "An Angel Feather". An art pop happy video.

  • Zox
    Director
    POP UP! (Award Winning Documentary), Tom Petty, Bee Gees, Dwight Twilley... & many more
  • Zox
    Producer
    POP UP! (Award Winning Documentary), Tom Petty, Bee Gees, Dwight Twilley... & many more
  • Randy Berlin
    Producer
    “An Angel Feather” (Award Winner Music Video)
  • Randy Berlin
    Key Cast
    "Himself"
    “An Angel Feather” (Award Winner Music Video)
  • Ed Caraeff
    Album cover, Photography & Design
    Jimmy Hendrix, Bee Gees, Elton John, George Harrison... & many more
  • Ed Caraeff
    Art direction
    Jimmy Hendrix, Bee Gees, Elton John, George Harrison... & many more
  • Stacy Skinner
    Make-up
    Academy Awards, NBC, Red Carpet, Michael Jordan, Daniel Radcliffe... & many more
  • Randy Berlin
    Words & Music
    “An Angel Feather” (Award Winner Music Video)
  • Randy Berlin
    Writer
    “An Angel Feather” (Award Winner Music Video)
  • Project Type:
    Music Video
  • Genres:
    rock pop, Pop Art, Art Rock
  • Runtime:
    2 minutes 47 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 10, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    150 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Tagore International Film Festival
    Birbhum
    India
    May 25, 2021
    Birbhum Premiere
    OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD / WINNER MUSIC VIDEO
  • Lift-Off Online Sessions
    Buckinghamshire
    United Kingdom
    June 14, 2021
    Online Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Gangtok International Film Festival
    Gangtok
    India
    July 5, 2021
    Gangtok Premiere
    OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD / WINNER MUSIC VIDEO
  • L’Age d’Or International Arthouse Film Festival
    Kolkata
    India
    July 8, 2021
    Kolkata Premiere
    OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD / WINNER MUSIC VIDEO
  • Cult Critic Movie Awards
    Kolkata
    India
    July 10, 2021
    Kolkata Premiere
    OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD / WINNER MUSIC VIDEO
  • Calcutta International Cult Film Festival
    Kolkata
    India
    July 16, 2021
    Kolkata Premiere
    OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD / WINNER MUSIC VIDEO
  • Druk International Film Festival
    Punakha
    Bhutan
    August 20, 2021
    Bhutan Premiere
    OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARD / WINNER MUSIC VIDEO
  • Lift-Off Online Sessions
    Buckinghamshire
    United Kingdom
    August 16, 2021
    Online Premiere
    Official Selection
  • California Indies
    California
    United States
    October 8, 2021
    United States Premiere
    Official Selection
  • World Film Carnival
    Singapore
    Singapore
    October 31, 2021
    International Premiere
    Best Music Video (Music Video)
Director Biography - Zox

ZOX Bio

A Brick in the Wall:
Growing up in Hollywood has informed Zox's art throughout his life. At Van Nuys High School, where he was a surfer and Captain of the Bee Football Team, Zox led a crew who painted hallway-spanning banners advertising school events. He began to realize how powerful imagery could be when his banner portrait of Fidel Castro was censored: The teacher painted a bag over Castro’s cabasa.

At San Diego State University, Zox designed his own creativity major that included art, photography, film and writing. Inspired, he painted a replica of a moose from his dictionary on the humanities building and was apprehended in the middle of writing his definition: "It's not only what one paints; where one paints might be more powerful." Zox met Andy Warhol for the first time at SDSU along with Viva, Nico and Paul Morrissey. Warhol gave Zox telling advice on being an artist—If you love it, do it. If you do it, it’s doable. That adage made art a possible life-path option.

Off the Wall:
Experimental variations were in the air leading Zox into post-graduate work in Eastern philosophy at Berkeley and, later, surrealist and beat poetry as well as film at San Francisco State University. Studying with beat poet Robert Creeley expanded Zox’s creative range. He designed a deck of image cards to be formatted like sentences to create poetry. During this period, Zox was living at the Topanga Canyon home of The Door’s Jim Morrison taking care of his dog Sage and talking with Jim about poetry and the surrealist poets in Paris. Not long after those conversations, Jim moved to Paris, where he died shortly after.

Zox’s first job was painting murals for an LA record store. These projects led to cartoon drawing for Warner Bros. Records. Numerous projects for record companies were directed his way until the day arrived that he had been working toward—his first album cover assignment: The Boston Pop's Orchestra directed by Arthur Fiedler performing Tubby the Tuba and narrated by Julia Childs.

Beyond the Wall:
Their mutual mania for hot and spicy cuisine drew Zox and Photographer Ed Caraeff together. It was only after many a teary meal that they started teaming-up to create album covers featuring large painted canvas backdrops and other unique solutions for such acts as Three Dog Night, The Bee Gees, Leon Russell, Steely Dan, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Poco; Nils Lofgren, The Guess Who, Sergio Mendez, The Waitresses, Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds. They also designed the Bee Gees' tour jet on which Zox airbrushed the artwork.

Among a string of special projects in conjunction with LA Neon, Zox designed and painted an enamel on metal picture of the Los Angeles Griffith Park Observatory, which was installed just inside its entrance.

In 1987, Zox experienced a once-in-a-lifetime historical undertaking: painting his Weltfrieden guerilla World Peace mural on the Berlin Wall. The concept behind the piece was anti-art, created in hopes that it would be destroyed. Two years later, on the same date the mural was painted, ecstatic East Germans demolished the wall and streamed westward.

For decades, Zox has exhibited his paintings in galleries, receiving large mural commissions for private residences, restaurants and other businesses, such as the interior of The Beach Boys Recording Studio and writing art reviews. Oil on canvas remains the focus of his direction.

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Director Statement

I felt the music. It was happy. I pictured Randy flying care free. I always like to see performers presenting the music with a minimalistic straight forward approach without distractions. I wanted to show Randy singing, expressing the joyous emotion in the song. Although there is a poetic concept to the video, it simultaneously is conveying messages on multiple levels, so the simplicity is a necessary response to the multiverse.